ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,609, issued on March 31, was assigned to Typeface Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Multimodal search and retrieval system" was invented by Siddharth Srivastava (New Delhi), Aditya Dhaulakhandi (Dehradun, India), Harshvardhan Pratap Singh (Kanpur Dehat, India), Neeraj Matiyali (Haldwani, India), Xinyu Zhao (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Gaurav Sharma (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Multimodal Search System (MSS) is designed to enable accurate search and retrieval across different modalities of data, including images, videos, and text. The MSS leverages multimodal and domain-specific models to extract and represent features and ...